LibriVox recording of The Type-Writer Girl, by Grant Allen (under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner). Read by Grant Hurlock.

"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young lady, crushed between classes above and below, and left with scarce a chance of earning her bread with decency." So says Juliet Appleton’s boss, encouraging her to put her story into print. How will this college-educated 23-year-old survive the Darwinian Battle of Life in late Victorian England? She’s fundless in London but armed, by way of adaptive structures, with those two high-tech devices of the day: a bicycle for mobility and a typewriter for utility. (Summary by Grant Hurlock)
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Artist/Composer: Grant Allen
Date: 2009-09-13
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; feminist fiction; Olive Pratt Rayner; Grant Allen

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: benefitsingers - - April 4, 2011
Subject: Sorry could not listen
Could not even get past the first droning chapter. I thought the story would be a good one, but alas, I did not care for the narration. I am sure for some others it might be okay. I listen and drive so a monotonous narrator might send me into a ditch.

Reviewer: lunarvol - - September 15, 2009
Subject: The Chapters Must Count... The Chapters Must Count...
Fear not, brave Solidarity Socialist [SS] party member! No, the original review was merely from a sagacious Patriot. Thanks esperancesp.com gobi-igloo.com [Apologies to W.S. Burroughs for "my" closing, which is intended, as is.] This book flows from a writer of genius who has given (the very excellent reader -- and your sensitive, caring, yet "individually wise" listener-reviewer) two brilliant movements of a wonderful, a charming, an unforgettable and quite sensationally erudite concerto -- with one, continuous, stridently long a-melodic cadenza as the ENTIRE LAST movement! And in which, then, even in that lethally poisonous third section, the travesty of overwriting taking us down through twisting canals and narrow dirty passages of wrong-minded plot-sense, internal character logic contradiction, and insanely quick dramatic rhythm -- to then not to have paid this listener an ending? -- it has a stopping! Nevertheless, wait; hold! You adamantly, beyond bravery, beyond courage, have to choose to perform the only correct individual duty to yourself and others, not quite specified, by hearing this book. Yes you do, or you'll never ever know.... certain... things... You must hear it. I know honor will sustain your unmeasurable duty, that is why I refuse to low-star it -- it is a matter of my individual counter-honor, you see? So, all rise! In the case of this very, very, beyond merely clever, intense extremely well-charactered Love Story, I hand out justice to this author's trying, to wit: 5 Stars.) The first two hears [chapters] must count! -- and, too, taking a lesson from the drama's fatal ending, in which the author kills his own story, through which he has taken us -- kills the writing itself (that's original, yes? Who says there are only 7 basic plots?) I sense I am so correct about this, and sense if I do not dutifully Love my 5 star rating -- the stars must count, la-la la laaaa -- then you may not listen to it, and...and I could never do that to you because what if I'm wrong and if

Reviewer: Parsnip - - September 15, 2009
Subject: Disappointing
Grant Allen writes with great emotion. The reader is somewhat monotonous. I hope the original reviewer was not the reader himself, but I fear it was.

Reviewer: tonympls - - September 15, 2009
Subject: wonderful
love and morality wonderfully read